Dress To Impress - How To Dress For Both An Interview and The Office
Clothes - Interviews and Workplaces
Whether dressing for an interview or dressing for the workplace you should understand that the clothes you wear tell a lot about your attitude and characteristics.
There are appropriate clothes to be worn and there are inappropriate clothes that shouldn’t be worn - how can you be sure about what get-up goes with what situation? Easy…read on to find out what you should be taking out of your wardrobe for those business occasions.
Interviews
The interview is the first time you are meeting your potential employer - this is your opportunity to provide a lasting first impression that can hopefully go someway to give you a chance at a job.
You should dress to impress - however, you can’t be sure about what will impress at this company because the chances are you will never have been to the company before and you have no idea what kind of mindset the company is in. For example you can imagine a job interview at a surf board company will call for funky clothes while an interview at a bank will probably call for a suit.
Professionals claim that it is a better idea to overdress slightly than to under dress at all - you can’t be sure what the feel and culture will be like in the place of work you are going to so your best bet is often a smart attire showing that you have a purpose and you are a mature thinker.
Try and feel out the company to the best of your ability - do some research online, get a feel for the company from your call-in for the interview and make an estimation of what you might think the company will be like. There is only so much guessing you can do so don’t blame yourself if you get it a bit wrong.
Office
Dressing for the office can be just as much of a struggle as dressing for the interview. The key for dressing at the office is to be smart-casual while making sure that you look like you have given the whole process some work and effort.
If you don’t look like you’ve put much thought into your clothing and appearance then you may not be taken seriously and you may even be avoided in extreme cases.
Take the opportunity when on your interview to take a look around and see what people are wearing - this is the best way to make sure you will fit in on the first day. If people are wearing shorts and flip flops then you can be pretty sure that you can turn up in similar clothes and not look a fool.
Dressing Down?
Are you finding that you can’t get the clothing right for your workplace? Are you going to rethink your clothing after reading our article? Leave us a comment and let us know…
